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In 2003, [GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects.  The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera font set, which can be downloaded and installed on any system you want. The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:

* __Bitstream Vera Serif__: a serif font most similar to Georgia.
* __Bitstream Vera Sans__: a very pleasant sans-serif font. It is similar to Verdana/Helvetica, but wider and warmer.
* __Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__: a gorgeous monospace font slightly similar to Terminal.

The wiki uses the BitstreamVera fonts if you have them installed.

For more information about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads see the [GNOME's announcement | http://www.gnome.org/fonts/].

The BitstreamVera 1.10 family contains only characters from [iso_8859_15(7)] ie. Western European charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (''A macron'', used for example in Māori). There is a fork called [DejaVu | http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/] which aims to cover as much of [Unicode] as feasible while remaining true to the feel and proportion of the original. (It had to be given a different name because the licence demands this to permit the distribution of modifications.) Nowadays, ~DejaVu is the preferred family; in fact, some LinuxDistribution~s no longer provide [Package]s of Vera, only of ~DejaVu. If you are using such a distro and want/need Vera as well for some reason, you can following the instructions in FontNotes to install Vera manually.

One page links to BitstreamVera:

FontNotes

Last edited on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:38:31 am by AristotlePagaltzis

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